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Stalsy
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4 years ago

Authorisation token expires too soon

 I'm running data-driven tests that have 5 steps: 1. Get new Authorisation token 2. DataSource (get a few thousand random rows from DB2) 3. REST Request  4. Assert script  5. DataSource Loop ...
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    Stalsy
    4 years ago

    The acquisition of a new access token is very slow so I can't afford to have it inside the loop. As you can see from the code snippet below I request for a new token and then wait in a loop till I have one:

    def oldToken = oAuthProfile.getAccessToken();

    def oAuthClientFacade = new OltuOAuth2AzureClientFacade (TokenType.ACCESS);
    oAuthClientFacade.requestAccessToken(oAuthProfile, true,true);

    while(oldToken == oAuthProfile.getAccessToken())

    {
      sleep(100);
    }

     

    I'm pretty happy with what I've got now:

    I get the access token in the TestRunListener.beforeRun event which also sets a test case property "Duration" to the time I want to wait till I need another token.

    Inside the test loop, in my groovy asserts script, I check if the test has been running for a time exceeding the Duration property, and if yes, I get a new access token and increment the Duration property

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Stalsy
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My "final Solution":

I implemented event TestRunListener.beforeRun which runs before each test.  Here I get a new access token and initialize the Duration property to a few minutes less than the life of the token.

My tests have a Datasource step, the Rest request, the Assert step and finally the Data Source loop step.

In the Assert step, if testRunenr.getTimeTaken() > Duration (i.e. my test has been running for a time  approaching  the token expiration), I get a new token and increment the value of the Duration property by another chuck of minutes equal to a few minutes less than the life of the token. 

 

I tried in vain to implement the acquiring of the new token as a script library method (getNewAccessToken(project)) so that I don't have to copy/paste the same code in every Assert test-step, but ReadyApi says I have a compilation error and I don't know how to debug ReadyAPI groovy library  scripts.  I have other script library methods that work fine... furthermore, the code in the method is almost identical to the code in the TestRunListener.beforeRun event except that I'm passing the project as a parameter... Still, it does not work and I have no way of debugging it!